This is a popular winter landscape lesson I found years ago HERE on the wonderful Dutch art blog "Kids Artists".
This lesson is a classic example of projects unethical teachers steal and post for themselves on Teachers Pay Teachers. That is why I do not support that website as it has a widespread problem with copyright infringement. Teacher like Jacquelien from Kids Artists spend hours developing and publishing these art lessons for FREE online only to have shady and lazy and greedy teachers steal their lessons and post them for profit. Gross.
Moving on!
I love this lesson because it incorporates beautiful winter landscapes which my country, Canada, is famous for! I'm lucky to live near the world famous Rocky Mountains and have done many hikes, including Chester Lake below, in the winter. It's an intense workout (snowshoes and going uphill is not fun, lol) but the views and mountain air are worth it.
So my Grade 4-6 students start by looking at photos of our beautiful winter forests here in Alberta. We discuss the variety of sizes and how trees get smaller as they get further away.
For this lesson, we are creating stylized winter tress, meaning they are simplified for artistic purposes.
Using watercolour paper (we use Hilroy brand, it's fantastic), students paint it with liquid watercolours and sprinkle on salt. This will be their tree paper. Let dry overnight.
Next class, students use another sheet of watercolour paper and paint a sky of their choice.
Then they dab on white paint for falling snow.
Switching to the salt watercolor tree paper, students use a ruler to draw a variety of sizes of triangles for their evergreen trees. Cut out. Then they outline them in gold or silver marker.
Glue these onto the sky paper.
These are always a successful project for all abilities!
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